Do I Have Twitter Brain?

Last night over at Ben's I told him that more and more I feel like I'm writing to a static box of text of arbitrary length and leaving worthwhile material in my notebooks. I find myself wanting a forum, I told him, I guess it could be a blog, let's say blogs.tampabay.com/michaelkruse, where I can tell readers what I'm working on, how I'm doing the reporting, what I'm reading, who I'm talking to, what I'm learning, all while building toward a more traditional piece that would run in the paper and on the Web site, and then linking that to the forum, too, and then finally using the forum to share any stuff that didn't make the final cut and respond to any questions or feedback prompted by the…